Parliamentary Standards Act 2009
Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 (2009 c. 13)
- Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 (2009 c. 13)
- Introductory
- 1 Bill of Rights
- 2 House of Lords
- Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority etc
- 3 Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority etc
- 3A General duties of the IPSA
- Salaries and allowances for MPs
- 4 MPs' salaries
- 4A Determination of MPs' salaries
- 5 MPs' allowances scheme
- 6 Dealing with claims under the scheme
- 6A Review of IPSA's determination
- 7 Information and guidance ...
- ...
- 8 MPs' code of conduct relating to financial interests
- Investigation and enforcement
- 9 Investigations
- 9A Procedures etc
- 9B Enforcement
- 10 Offence of providing false or misleading information for allowances claims
- 10A Relationships with other bodies etc
- Final provisions
- 11 Further functions of the IPSA and Commissioner
- 12 Interpretation
- 13 Power to make transitional etc provision
- 14 Short title and commencement
- 15 Expiry of provisions of the Act
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
- Part 1 Members of the IPSA
- Membership
- Appointment of chair and ordinary members
- Terms and conditions: general
- Term of office
- Resignation and removal from office
- Remuneration
- Code of conduct
- Disqualification
- Part 2 The IPSA
- Status
- ...
- Powers
- Committees
- Procedure and proceedings
- Staff
- Staff pensions
- Separation of administration functions and regulation functions
- Meaning of “administration functions” and “regulation functions”
- Delegation
- Contracting-out of payment functions
- Delegation and contracting out of pension functions
- Funding
- Accounts
- Audit
- Annual report
- Documentary evidence
- Freedom of information
- Public records
- Interpretation
- Schedule 2 Compliance Officer
- Appointment of Compliance Officer
- Terms and conditions: general
- Term of office
- Resignation and removal from office
- Remuneration
- Status
- Funding
- Annual report
- Vacancy in office of Compliance Officer
- Disqualification
- Freedom of information
- Public records
- SCHEDULE 3 Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
- Membership
- Appointed members
- Lay members
- Committee proceedings
- Schedule 4 Enforcement
- Part 1 Recovery of overpayments
- Power to give repayment direction
- Guidance etc
- Appeal against repayment direction
- Extension of repayment period
- Enforcement of repayment direction
- Part 2 Penalties
- Power to impose penalties
- Amount of penalty
- Information to be contained in notice
- Guidance etc
- Review of penalty
- Appeal against penalty
- Enforcement of penalty
- Payment of penalty into Consolidated Fund